Theatre des instrumens mathematiques & mechaniques

by: Besson, Jacques, (Mathematician); Béroalde de Verville, 1556-; Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584, illustrator; Boyvin, René, approximately 1525-approximately 1598, illustrator; Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1578

Topics: Mechanical engineering, Machinery

Publisher: A Lyon : Par Barthelmy Vincent

Collection: smithsonian

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French; Latin

Translation of: Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum

The illustrations are attributed to Androuet du Cerceau; Rene Boyvin (plates 17, 35, 39, and 51 bear his monogram); and others

Title within architectural border

Head- and tail-pieces; initials

Signatures: A-E⁴

SCDIRB copy 39088012118378 has some old ms. ink autographs and inscriptions on the t.p. and on the verso of plate 60 that have been crossed through, erased, or cut away, with the leaves repaired. In the margin of p. [3], there is a modern ms. pencil [SI?] acquisitions note: "Sci. tech., Reichner, 19 Nov. [19]59."

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Philip Hofer

SCDIRB copy has a modern quarter-vellum binding with green paste-paper-covered boards and a gilt-lettered black leather spine label